Practical – 3I2

Pig eye dissection (12 marks)

Names: Eduard and

Viktor
_______________________

Ø Label the diagram of the eye

vitreous chamber
suspensory
ligaments

opticnerve
pupil
sclera
lens choroid
ciliarybody retina

Ø Materials

• pig eye • forceps

• dissecting tray • beaker
• dissecting scissors

Ø Orientation

Locate the optic nerve. It looks like a thick white tube at the back of the eye. You may have to
remove some fat to see it. When you look at the eye (front view), it is a left eye if the optic
nerve is directed to the observer’s right and vice versa.

Ø Dissection

• Trim the fat and muscles away from the eye (do not remove the optic nerve).
• Make an incision in the sclera, midway between the cornea and the optic nerve using
the scissors. Then carefully cut the sclera all the way around the eyeball (see picture
on next page).
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• The aqueous humour (filling the space between the cornea and the pupil) will spill.
• Remove the vitreous humour (jellylike material filling the central cavity inside the eye)
and put it on the summary sheet.
• Locate the lens in the front part of the eye. Remove it
and put it in a beaker containing water.
• The section allows to distinguish the three layers of
the eyeball:
sclera white and thick layer whose
o The ___________:
frontal part is forming the transparent cornea.
retina
o The ___________: thin, dark layer forming the
iris in the front.
o Thevitreous
_________:
enamor with photoreceptors,
containing the blind spot which is the exit point
of the optic nerve.

a. Take a picture of the inside of the back part showing the

three layers of the eyeball. Annotate them on the picture.
b. Take a picture of the inside of the front part of the eye and annotate it.
c. Carefully remove the lens and put it on the summary sheet. Write down your observations.
d. Finally isolate all parts of the eye (try to remove the retina with the forceps or put the back
part of the eye in the water to remove the retina) and place them on the summary sheet. Take
a picture.

• After dissection, clean all the materials that you used.

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inside back inside front

port port
blind
spot iris
vitreous
humor cornea
lens
retina
sclera

Cl After removingthe
lens from the vitreoushumor and placing it
on the spreadsheet we could observe that it enlarges the
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